If you offer services and/or products to consumers or users through standard contracts, be aware that a new regulation is in force which details which clauses will be considered abusive and, therefore, null and void.
Through Resolution 194/2020, the INPI ordered the resumption of the course of the deadlines of the procedures under its competence that were suspended by INPI Resolution N°16/20 and its successive extensions.
This time, the Undersecretary for Access to Justice -that depends of the aforementioned Ministry- issued Order Nº 7/2020, that includes a brief Guide for these Virtual Mediations during the social isolation period decreed by the Government, which applies only to mediations carried out in Buenos Aires City.
During the last couple of weeks the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Labor have set up the general framework to start or continue mediations –in civil or commercial issues- and conciliations –in complaints related to labor law.
On April 13, 2020, Argentina has taken a major step forward towards the digitalization of judicial system.
